I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
HERODOTUSMy men have become women, but the women men.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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